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THE STONE BOY The 9-year-old Arnold is the main character in the text. He’s living on a farm together with his brother, 15-year-old Eugene, and their father and mother. It all seems quite ordinary until line 11 “he lifted his .22-caliber rifle” and continues in line 12: “his father had given it to him”. His father, who was supposed to be the clever overhead in the family, had given Arnold a rifle. It’s easy to see that Arnold is proud of his rifle showing it to his older roll model brother. He feels grown up with the responsibility, which follows with the rifle, although he isn’t old enough to handle it. As a son he is both devoted to duty and helps to take care of the farm. As a brother he’s a friend, although he doesn’t think so himself. A proverb says that blood is thicker than water, and it is obvious in Arnold’s perception of his brother: he doesn’t even see him as a friend, only as a brother and to the sheriff he can’t explain this even though “a brother” for Arnold is a greater title than “a friend”. Right after the accident Arnold had been divided into two. One is just staring at the body and doesn’t understand what had happened, the other wants to get away and forget about it. I think one half of his personality is turned off in the cause of the chock. The psychologist George H. Mead (1863-1931) has evolved a theory about the personality being divided into two: the “Me” and the “I”. Normally, the “Me” will control the “I” and the other way around when one of them is getting too determining in a situation.
Approximate Word count = 1078
Approximate Pages = 4.3
(250 words per page double spaced)
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